I was browsing Alexa website and found the page for top sites on the web. After studying that, I thought to share top 10 websites with you.

Here there is a list of top 10 websites on the web according to Alexa.

1. Google.com


2. Facebook.com


3. Youtube.com


4. Yahoo.com


5. Live.com


6. Wikipedia.org


7. Blogger.com


8. Baidu.com


9. msn.com


10. qq.com

PHP is now considered to be the most trendy web programming language. The biggest advantage of PHP is that, it is an open source platform. This helps in dropping cost and time for any web developing organization. Organization yearning to build a website or a web based application that will not only give a user friendly experience but also run your database. PHP is judged to be one of the best web programming languages and is extensively chosen since its foundation in 1995. This is the faultless choice of program if the client wants the project to be incorporated with a database.

The most excellent part of PHP is that it is an open source web development framework. It has all built-in developments that make it an absolute web application developing program for any prerequisite. PHP adds the winning frame over its competitors such as .Net and java which are also giants in the web development industry. PHP is considered to be the most popular and trendy web programming language. The biggest benefit is that, it is an open source platform. This helps in dipping cost and time for any web developing company.

Today, most of the companies favor a dynamic website where the content can be modified and updated sporadically. The web world was missing such websites. This appears to be a terrible to all programming languages and it made things inferior when the client demanded an SEO friendly website. The birth of PHP as a dynamic web programming language finished the issue of a website being static all the time. Each version that was released, improved the performance and security of the internet programming language.

Features of PHP Development are:

• PHP decreases the lines of code radically. This helps the quality assertion team when the testing procedure is done.
• The applications are protected and locked like never before.
• The websites built using PHP boost performance and assures to be consistent and user friendly.
• PHP being an open source language is a massive advantage. This decreases cost and time to build an application or a website.
• Websites built using PHP not only helps the developers, but also the website owners. The website is easy to sustain and further developments can be executed since the language PHP uses is of international principles.

Website owners who have developed their websites using PHP can blow their own horn of a trouble free, search engine friendly website and can build up multi featured web based applications.

It’s a merry-making time for everyone and all wish to be there with their family and friends for spending good time during festive vacation. Here comes the season when everyone’s busy but it’s not really with work but with the social visits and spending some great time with the friends and family. Therefore, a little drop is common till the New Year’s Day.

In this holiday season, most of the websites witness a slowdown in the number of customers and visitors. In fact, the slack the business starts right from the day of thanksgiving, but that is hardly for a week whereas, in December the trend continues to dip even further. It is a known fact that holiday is counted in one of the major reasons for the dip in the numbers of visitors and it can at times become half of the total website visitors in the month of December.

Most of the people surf during their free hours in office but since they are busy with enjoying their vacation. It is much obvious that the frequency of their search would decline during holidays. However, the only websites getting hit too much would be the one that are into selling or offering seasonal or holiday related items.

So if you posses an online presence which is not related to holiday related / seasonal items then the dip is sure to follow.

On that happy note,

“A little smile, a word of cheer, A bit of love from someone near, A little gift from one held dear, Best wishes for the coming year… This makes a Merry Christmas!”

Wish You All Happy Christmas! Have Fun To Your Heart’s Delight!

Technology is a highly dynamic field especially when concerned with building web applications. There a numerous technologies available these days that serves as a development platform which can deliver web solutions. Primarily, businessmen choose to build web solutions on the Open Source technologies which include LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) and ROR (Ruby on Rails). But there are other technologies platforms too such as Microsoft Technologies, Java Technologies, and Database Technologies and so on. Therefore, when looking for perfect web solutions, it is better to look for a good Information Technology Consultant who has knowledge and power to take your business to the top.

Open Source technology is basically a free and open to all the developers. It is a platform for designing, developing, and distributing software which provides accessibility to software’s source code. This is generally preferred as it helps in cutting down the cost of building a web solution immensely and yet not compromising in quality. LAMP has become a unique combination in open source that can provide an effective web solution.

.NET, ASP.NET is the technologies provided by Microsoft for building software solutions. It is a software framework that needs to be installed in the computers for making its usage. It also requires the computers to have Windows Operating System. The technology contains a library of coded solutions for the common programming hassles.

Sun Microsystems have also come up with an efficient technology called Java that has numerous computer software products and specifications. This technology enables developing application software that can work in cross platform environment as well. Now-a-days, Java is used “ in a wide variety of computing platforms from embedded devices and mobile phones on the low end, to enterprise servers and supercomputers on the high end.”

However, an Information Technology Consultant who offers web solutions on all this platforms is necessary. This is because one never knows the future and the business might demand you to migrate from one technology to another. A single technology consultant can easily help you with this kind of migration as the consultant already has the overall knowledge about all the technologies. Not only this, the consultancy also has professional developers who can design and develop solution for you as per your requirement.

The experienced Information Technology Consulting Firm has precise tools for achieving the desired results by making use of all the different platforms. Also, it is less hassle some for them to migrate from one technology to the other technological platform.

Google is a search engine that began in 1996 as an assignment by the two bright students of Stanford university, but ever since then it has grown to become of the most powerful companies. Today, Google Inc. is the highest earning company on the internet and it has emerged as a dominating company in its field. Besides, this there are plenty of facts about Google that are less know to the public. Here is the list of some of them:

• 99% of Google's annual revenue is obtained from Adwords.



• The 2008 advertising revenue of Google was $21 billion.



• 1.35% of the US' Adwords advertisers make up 80% of Google US ad revenue.



• Adwords was previously known it used to be called Adwords Select. The top banner position was sold old school style through a program call Adwords Premium.



• Google's pricing mechanism where the winner pays the runner up's price was devised to prevent super-inflated bid prices but the second-price auctions resulted in higher prices for Google right away.



• In 2009 Google began showing ads based on their previous online activities. User patterns are segmented in 20 categories and roughly 600 subcategories.



• In 2008, 80% of 80,000 typo-squatting domains in the US alone were funded through Adsense.



• Google's query forecasting models are founded in their efforts to understand and predict Adwords pricing and click patterns.



• Although it doesn't like to talk about using user data, Google cross references everything. "We have temperature data, weather data, and queries data, so we can do correlation and statistical modeling."



• In the last 10 years Google's latency has gone from 1000ms to 200ms.



• In the last 10 years Google has made seven major re-architecture changes.



• Compared to 1999 Google's index is now 100x larger but they update it 10,000 times faster.



• Google catalogued its trillionth web page in 2008.



• To translate one sentence Google does a million lookups in a multi-terabyte data structure.



• To punish itself for artificial link inflation (paid links) Google penalized itself in 2009 by lowering the PageRank of its Japan domain from PR9 to PR5.



• Since January 2009 Gmail regularly beats YouTube in market share by US visits and is the 2nd most popular Google property.



• The 3 largest traffic drivers for Gmail are Google, Facebook — and Yahoo! Mail…



• To encourage developer teams to move to new servers Google uses auctions where teams bid how many extra computers dedicated to their service it would take for them to move; the lowest bidding team wins.



• In 2007 Google announced it will award $20 million to the 1st private team which builds a robot — and puts it on the moon.